# How do YOU pronounce "MPSIMS"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2000, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889 "2000-03-14T21:08:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2000, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/21 "2000-03-14T23:57:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Coldfire: > M.P. Sims here. Funny, I had this discussion with MoosieGirl over ICQ the other night. She doesn’t even pronounce it, she spells it: M.P.S.I.M.S. Hell, that just changed in a hurry. M.P.SIMS! Damn you, Coldy Clogs. 😃 * * * “I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought.” - Seldom Bucket ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/22 "2000-03-15T00:00:00Z")
Empy-isms It was only last month that I realized that I had mentally reversed the ‘i’ and the ‘s.’ Thus, my pronounciation is somewhat dyslexic. Can’t break the habit now! ---
**Author:** ![Chrome\_Toaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ebca7d/32.png) [@Chrome\_Toaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chrome_Toaster)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/23 "2000-03-15T00:03:00Z")
I pronounce it “em PIZZ ums” (almost like FrankD6). But before I was enlightened, I pronounced it “M-P-S-isms”. * * * A Slightly Altered Perception of Reality… Chrome Toaster ---
**Author:** ![crackwise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@crackwise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crackwise)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/24 "2000-03-15T00:10:00Z")
M.P. Sims. Usually. When I’m not logged in, but Lex is, I’ll ask “What’s new on M.P. Sims?” or “What’s up with Mundane Pointless today?” * * * ~handcrafted signatures since 1975~ ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/25 "2000-03-15T00:14:00Z")
M.P. Sims – it never occurred to me to call it anything else, oddly. Catrandom ---
**Author:** ![Jeannie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e480ec/32.png) [@Jeannie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeannie)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/26 "2000-03-15T00:30:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by divemaster: > \*\*Empy-isms > > It was only last month that I realized that I had mentally reversed the ‘i’ and the ‘s.’ Thus, my pronounciation is somewhat dyslexic. Can’t break the habit now!\*\* I’m similar. I actually say it: Empysisms. I know that’s not how it’s spelled, but whatever. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/27 "2000-03-15T00:36:00Z")
Em Pee Ess Aye Em Ess (I do a lot of work with IBM stuff.) ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/28 "2000-03-15T01:01:00Z")
You already know this, but I’ll throw my vote in anyway. I say M. P. Sims * * * Work is fine for killin’ time, but it’s a shaky way to make a living. ---
**Author:** ![Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/97f17d/32.png) [@Nu\_Vo\_Da\_Da](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nu_Vo_Da_Da)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/29 "2000-03-15T01:12:00Z")
I used to call it Em Pee Sims, along with a lot of people apparently. But now I think I’m going to have to start calling it Em-possums as per your suggestion… ---
**Author:** ![Lawrence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@Lawrence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lawrence)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/30 "2000-03-15T01:16:00Z")
I spell it out letter by letter, as if it were NFL or FBI. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/31 "2000-03-15T01:39:00Z")
I pronounce each letter individually, like tomndbebb and MoosieGirl. Either that, or I’ll say “Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share”. I remember at the So. Cal Doper’s meeting Melin was looking at me funny when I said Emm Pee Ess I Emm Ess. ---
**Author:** ![aseymayo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a88e57/32.png) [@aseymayo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aseymayo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/32 "2000-03-15T01:39:00Z")
I’m a mip-simmer. I’m a mip-simmer. Watchin’ posts go by - Oh, my, my. **tomndebb** , for some reason, your post made me think of an old gag of my mother’s. F U N E X? S, V F X. F U N E M? S, V F M. Y, L F D M N X. Why, oh why, do these things stick in my brain? ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/33 "2000-03-15T02:06:00Z")
I dunno why, but I think of it as: PMSisms But that would probably apply more to the Pit. Dyslexia can be fnu. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/34 "2000-03-15T02:35:00Z")
I spell it, like Tom. * * * ~Kyla “Don’t Do It.” ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/35 "2000-03-15T02:45:00Z")
I pronounce it as if it were a MpDonald’s product. ---
**Author:** ![kaos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f17d59/32.png) [@kaos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaos)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/36 "2000-03-15T04:10:00Z")
i say m-p-sims yeah…😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/37 "2000-03-15T04:13:00Z")
Ohmygosh - it just occured to me - Mickey Pees! ---
**Author:** ![Sue\_Duhnym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@Sue\_Duhnym](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sue_Duhnym)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/38 "2000-03-15T04:14:00Z")
em-piz-ems 😉 * * * A woman needs four animals in her life: A mink in the closet, a Jaguar in the garage, a tiger in the bedroom, and an ass to pay for it all. —Zsa Zsa Gabor ---
**Author:** ![Alphagene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Alphagene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alphagene)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/39 "2000-03-15T05:37:00Z")
The general consensus of both the NYC and the Spiffled/Chicago SDMB crews is “mipsims”. ---
**Author:** ![the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f1d935/32.png) [@the\_Scarlet\_Pimpernel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Scarlet_Pimpernel)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2000, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-pronounce-mpsims/14889/40 "2000-03-15T12:43:00Z")
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